Isnt it time...we moved to 30 mins eachway

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we moved to 30 mins eachway, with a guy starting/stopping the clock everytime the ball is out of play or whistle is blown.

there appears to be so many benefits to it:confused:
 
Think it would work but people don't like change. Fifa especially...look how hard it was getting goal line.

It still doesn't solve feiging to win a free kick in a decent area tho, need some sort of vid refs and challange system maybe as well, especially for dodgy line calls and pen's..
 
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SideWinder said:
Why?

Keep it the way it is and cut out the timewasting/diving using other methods.
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What are the benefits of the current system?

Using a stop clock would be a fantastic thing. Would cut out pretty much all time wasting and errors in time keeping.
 
It's kind of how they do it over here in high school and club up to a certain age.
So I coach high school 'soccer', the clock counts down from 40mins (each half), clock gets stopped on an injury or something similar, buzzer goes off when it hits zero. Seen some frantic last few seconds in games along with some goals.
I personally don't like it :)
 
Why drop to 30 minutes each half? Whats the point in that? stopping the clock everytime the ball goes out of play is silly, fouls yes I can go with that but throw ins, goal kicks etc. Nah
 
Seeing as there are never usually more than 5 minutes added on at the end it would make more sense to have 40 minute halves with this method or keep the usual 45 minute halves and stop the clock. I like the idea but can't see it happening.
 
EggMan123 said:
Seeing as there are never usually more than 5 minutes added on at the end it would make more sense to have 40 minute halves with this method or keep the usual 45 minute halves and stop the clock. I like the idea but can't see it happening.
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The amount of time added to the end of the game doesn't adequately reflect the actual time lost. It's an approximation which applies a blanket amount of time for each event, and doesn't take into account things like timewasting.

Given that in a normal game, the ball is in play for only around 30 minutes, it makes a lot of sense to set that as the nominal 'half' time and stop the clock when the ball is not in play. You remove the often subjective additional time, which makes the game fairer and removes incentives for players to feign injury or to take their time when restarting after a goal, or for keepers to waste time with goal kicks.

I don't think it'll ever happen, as there would be a lot of resistance to it at all levels, and massive infrastructure changes. It would make the overall length of the game variable (which would impact policing provision), and may have to be implemented differently at different levels of the game. At the lower levels it might be hard to provide official and independent timekeeping.
 
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